Play Quarter Tones

Famous quotes containing the words play, quarter and/or tones:

    “When I play with my cat, who knows whether she isn’t amusing herself with me more than I with her.”
    —Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)

    “Like the water, the Walden ice, seen near at hand, has a green tint, but at a distance is beautifully blue, and you can easily tell it from the white ice of the river, or the merely greenish ice of some ponds, a quarter of a mile off.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “‘Tis not that thy mien is stately,
    ‘Tis not that thy tones are soft;”
    —Charles Stuart Calverley (1831–1884)